I’m back! I had a great time traveling around southern China for the past month. The weather was warm (though not as warm as I was hoping to be honest) and the scenery was great. I ended up going to 3 more UNESCO World Heritage sites (in my vain attempt to see all of them before leaving China) and they did not disappoint.
I also got to celebrate Chinese New Years, Chinese-style in Hong Kong! That city is a non-stop party during Spring Festival and I was really excited to be there for the holiday. I was a little uncertain about Hong Kong, people told me it was only good for shopping, but the city turned out to be amazing. I was there for almost 2 weeks and still didn’t manage to do everything I wanted to do. (Like eat dim sum. Can you believe it?! It wasn’t for lack of trying though, just lack of availability because all the places closed for the holidays. I’m still angry about it.)
Unfortunately my trip ended with a whimper (quite literally, I whimpered a few times), as I managed to get food poisoning on the last day. So my actual day traveling back home was one filled with misery. I left Hong Kong at 11 a.m., and I didn’t get back home until 7:30 p.m. It was the hardest 8 hours of my life.
Of course I will be writing about the many places I went to in more detail over the following week. (Don’t worry I won’t write anymore about food poisoning though, no one wants to know those details.) This vacation was unique in many ways, also which I’ll be talking about later.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have 1,600 pictures from this trip to look through. Time to get to work!
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